[Solved] Problems tethering the FTV Stick - Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone had any issues when using a tethered connection with their FTV?
I got a FTV stick last week to replace my chromecast, but it's been driving me crazy with this. I'm away from home for about a week at a time off and on, and tether my phone for the internet. Works great on the Chromecrast, can stream 1080p videos at 2MB/s+ np. The FTV on the other hand seems to only pull at max 75~kB/s. Seems to work fine on a regular router.
Anyone know what's up here? I searched for everything I can think of, but nothings come up.
My phone is a Nexus 6, if that makes any difference.
Thanks

Just wanted to update. I eventually got my Nexus 6 to multiboot with Android M preview, and tried it. With regular 2.4ghz I get the same issue, but when I switched to the 5ghz band, it worked perfectly.
I have no interference on any bands here, or anything that would cause it outside of the phone. So it's something to do with 2.4ghz, or the N6 specifically.
Just glad I got it working.

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Wifi Display will be coming to Galaxy Nexus

Many of the people who had been wondering why Google chose to go with the OMAP 4460 as the processor for the Galaxy Nexus have gotten yet another answer to that question. The Omap4 series of processors are compatible with wifi display. as of right now, besides the Omap4 family the Snapdragon S4 is the only mentioned to be getting wifi display. It looks as if the Tegra 3 isn't going to support it at all according to http://www.androidauthority.com/wifi-display-to-make-your-life-easier-in-2012-47153/ . At this time it looks as though the OMAP4 is going to be the only current gen chip that will support wifi display, and of course with us having a nexus device we will most likely be seeing that update before anybody.
http://androidandme.com/2012/01/new...ay-likely-powered-by-texas-instruments-omap4/
Thanks for sharing this. I hope this actually happens soon!
chino0131 said:
Thanks for sharing this. I hope this actually happens soon!
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No problem. According to the androidandme article we're looking at a summer release. I am looking forward to this coming to our phones as I think it would be very useful for me. Often times I'll either connect a laptop to the TV or my cell phone and stream kid's shows from a particular site for my son. It would be very nice if I could do that without having to connect my phone directly to the television like I've been doing. I could sit across the room on my computer while he watches his show and still have my phone right next to me. That would be nice.
Is this WiDi?
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Is this WiDi?
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From what I understand (and I could be wrong, so anyone correct me if I am) widi is an intel thing and it's for displaying your pc wirelessly to a television. Wifi display involves a "wifi direct" connection between two devices and is actually an emerging standard that the wifi alliance is backing. All in all I don't think it is the same thing was WiDi.
But we need tv that support this wifi display?
I don't have such tv.
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gogol said:
But we need tv that support this wifi display?
I don't have such tv.
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That or just an adapter. Also, from my understanding it works with computers too, and any other wifi display capable device (not sure what other devices that would be).
mysterioustko said:
That or just an adapter. Also, from my understanding it works with computers too, and any other wifi display capable device (not sure what other devices that would be).
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Maybe it will work better than WiFi Direct? Has anybody managed to figure this crap out?
Maybe hardware supports it, but I think we will need software to handle this. I'm not sure that there is a permission for app to handle access to wifi radio (and any other hardware needed for this), so it will have to be implemented in the OS...
This technology is much lower latency than Intel WiDi, and it's also not proprietary. WiDi is good only for video, whereas WiFi Display is quick enough to support real-time gaming. And as an open standard that's cheap to implement, you can expect it to kill WiDi in short order.
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Maybe it will work better than WiFi Direct? Has anybody managed to figure this crap out?
Maybe hardware supports it, but I think we will need software to handle this. I'm not sure that there is a permission for app to handle access to wifi radio (and any other hardware needed for this), so it will have to be implemented in the OS...
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Connecting two wifi direct devices isn't too difficult. For example, connecting a galaxy s2 to a Galaxy Nexus works fairly easily. That being said, you are right that wifi display will have to be implemented on the OS level. From what I understand they expect an update to come from Google some time this summer that will implement the feature. We've got something to look forward to this summer lol.
Could the WiFi display work two ways, buy a small 10.1" WiFi display with touch screen, connect to the Galaxy Nexus - instant Nexus Tablet!
StuMcBill said:
Could the WiFi display work two ways, buy a small 10.1" WiFi display with touch screen, connect to the Galaxy Nexus - instant Nexus Tablet!
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I was wondering the exact same thing! That would be great if that turns out to be possible. There seems to be several different possible applications for this. I'm excited to see what the community comes up with for this.
Something off the top of my head is: Having software installed on the computer to remotely control the phone. Create a nfc tag that starts up wifi display to your tv and launches the computer remote controls. When you place the phone on the tag you will instantly be able to control the phone via the computer and have it displayed on the television. That's just an idea that came to my mind.
This is why i got a nexus
Is there any word on when we might be receiving this?
What I want to know is when we will see the technology on the TV side. Google updating doesn't do much good until we have devices to pair with.
On another note, I'd have trouble justifying purchase of a toggle or $4000 flagship Sony TV exclusively for this functionality. I wonder if we will see this technology utilized in entry-level smart tvs or rokus, google tvs, and xboxes. This feature will really become useful when it is available on most any wifi-connected display around you.
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What I want to know is when we will see the technology on the TV side. Google updating doesn't do much good until we have devices to pair with.
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I'm just hoping for an adapter box that outputs HDMI.
Looks like the Galaxy SIII is going to beat us to it.
Can't wait to see the first demos of it. Perhaps it's like with iphone.
manore said:
Can't wait to see the first demos of it. Perhaps it's like with iphone.
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The demos from Texas Instruments I saw looked more appealing than the iPhone's method to me. The latency is also suppose to be much lower. I'm excited, that was the one feature of the iOS ecosystem I was very jealous of.
This is somewhat OT, but Samsung is also releasing a set of cameras with built-in WiFi direct capability. Your phone basically becomes a remote control/viewfinder for the camera and you can control most of its functions. I love where this technology is going.

Xperia S & Wireless n

first off i have searched but searching "n" is pretty fruitless.
If i set my router to b,g,n my Xperia S drops out constantly, setting it to b,g it is rock solid. anyone any ideas please?
Router is a BT Homehub 3B on Infinity 2 80Mbit.
Xperia S is on UK SIM free ICS .453
MrBelter said:
first off i have searched but searching "n" is pretty fruitless.
If i set my router to b,g,n my Xperia S drops out constantly, setting it to b,g it is rock solid. anyone any ideas please?
Router is a BT Homehub 3B on Infinity 2 80Mbit.
Xperia S is on UK SIM free ICS .453
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Tried a different channel for your router? My XS didn't like 13, but any other worked fine.
Unlikely to fix yours, seeing as it picks up on B&G though....
Yeah tried it mate, i even turned on smart wireless to let it flick around a bit and it was no better.
Im getting a solid 25Mbit over g which is fast enough i guess but obviously that is at the cost of lowering the speed of all the other devices in the house.

wifi drop out with bluetooth

I just got the note 8 and I was watching YouTube with my jam box bluetooth speaker. Wifi was dropping out. When I turn off bluetooth the wifi is fine. This problem effects other devices I understand - like the nexus 4. Samsung built this tablet without fixing the problem? Thoughts please. This is a major dissapointment and I may return the tablet but l would rather not if a fix is available or coming soon.
cathulu said:
I just got the note 8 and I was watching YouTube with my jam box bluetooth speaker. Wifi was dropping out. When I turn off bluetooth the wifi is fine. This problem effects other devices I understand - like the nexus 4. Samsung built this tablet without fixing the problem? Thoughts please. This is a major dissapointment and I may return the tablet but l would rather not if a fix is available or coming soon.
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Tried to flash another *stock rom and kernel
if problem remain take it to service for replace
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Does anybody else have this problem? It is happening again in another room of my house. According to wifi analyzer l am getting between 60 and 70dbm signal strength which is in the yellow zone but close to green. So it is not a weak signal.
I will return mine for another, hopefully not wasting my time.
cathulu said:
Does anybody else have this problem? It is happening again in another room of my house. According to wifi analyzer l am getting between 60 and 70dbm signal strength which is in the yellow zone but close to green. So it is not a weak signal.
I will return mine for another, hopefully not wasting my time.
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I had the same problem with my Note 10.1; it only happened when streaming bluetooth audio. It was fine when using my bluetooth keyboard. I askedthe same question that you did, but on the Note 10 forum, and I got no replies.
I might get this problem when I'm using Tablet Talk and connected with bluetooth. I also have short and brief instances were WiFi seems to disconnect.
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Well I got another Note 8 today and playing around with it. I am close to the router and wifi is dropping out while streaming to my jambox. The only mitigating thing as the wifi usually reconnects before the buffer is used up... at least when I am close to the router and the signal is strong.
I can't believe that not one reviewer identified this problem! Shows you how useless they are. :^)
As this is android 4.1 based it should not have the streaming issues. So this may be a hardware issue.
This sucks and I have to evaluate if this tablet is now worth it.
Did you guys do the software update that came out in april? I read somewhere it had bug fixes for wifi issues.
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Update
I went to the samsung store to test my jambox with their galaxy note 8 and their wifi. Surprise surprise there was no drop out. So I suspect my old dlink DIR-655 router 2.4 GHz is the problem. Anyways I just got a new Asus rt-n66u router and set-up the note 8 on the 5 GHz band. Streaming Google play music to my jambox while browsing on the Internet and no drop out. Tablet is a keeper. What a relief.
cathulu said:
Update
I went to the samsung store to test my jambox with their galaxy note 8 and their wifi. Surprise surprise there was no drop out. So I suspect my old dlink DIR-655 router 2.4 GHz is the problem. Anyways I just got a new Asus rt-n66u router and set-up the note 8 on the 5 GHz band. Streaming Google play music to my jambox while browsing on the Internet and no drop out. Tablet is a keeper. What a relief.
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Thanks for the update! I may have to get a new router, it seems!
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cathulu said:
I just got the note 8 and I was watching YouTube with my jam box bluetooth speaker. Wifi was dropping out. When I turn off bluetooth the wifi is fine. This problem effects other devices I understand - like the nexus 4. Samsung built this tablet without fixing the problem? Thoughts please. This is a major dissapointment and I may return the tablet but l would rather not if a fix is available or coming soon.
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I have a Nexus 7 (2013) with Android 4.3 and I have the same problem. Wifi connections drops when bluetooth is on. I heard you get worse wifi/bluetooth problem with Android 4.4 so I didn't update. Is there a fix???
avatarx1 said:
I have a Nexus 7 (2013) with Android 4.3 and I have the same problem. Wifi connections drops when bluetooth is on. I heard you get worse wifi/bluetooth problem with Android 4.4 so I didn't update. Is there a fix???
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To fix your problem you need a dual band 2,4 - 5 ghz router......it's not a problem of your tablet/phone....
batmar333 said:
To fix your problem you need a dual band 2,4 - 5 ghz router......it's not a problem of your tablet/phone....
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Thank you. Buying a dual band 2.5/5Ghz router and using the 5Ghz solved my problem.

Do I have issues with my 10.1-2014?

Hi all, I have had my P600 since Christmas and it has been good. I am running ML1 firmware, no root. It shipped with MJ2.
I have noticed a couple of problems. Firstly, I have occasional bluetooth keyboard disconnects. They really infrequent but definitely occur. They just don't seem to be anywhere near as severe as people have been describing in other threads.
Secondly, this tablet just can't detect my 5GHz wifi connection. My Note II on the table next to it has no problems finding and using that connection. I am downloading MK1 firmware now to see if it is ML1 that is the problem, as I *think* that the tablet originally detected both 2.4 and 5GHz connections. I didn't really take note though. I have noticed this now mainly because I've been trying to turn wifi on and off to test what may be happening with bluetooth.
Thing is, I've never really had a good BT experience in my life, but I need to get this keyboard and a mouse working to use this tablet the way I intend to.
Is the 5GHz failure an ML1 thing, is there some other cause, or is it a hardware fault? Any tips?
Cheers,
Jason
Running ML1 as well. No comment on the BT keyboard since I haven't used mine enough yet, only for a few minutes here and there to test, not long time.
I have a dual band Asus RT AC-66U and I can use both my 2.4 and 5 Ghz networks. Only thing is that the 5 Ghz network gets poor reception from the tablet across my house (to be expected I suppose).
C2Q said:
Running ML1 as well. No comment on the BT keyboard since I haven't used mine enough yet, only for a few minutes here and there to test, not long time.
I have a dual band Asus RT AC-66U and I can use both my 2.4 and 5 Ghz networks. Only thing is that the 5 Ghz network gets poor reception from the tablet across my house (to be expected I suppose).
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Thanks for the reply. It prompted me to look further and I realised it's a channels thing. Changed the channel on my router and the Note can see 5GHz now.
Silly me.
Someone has to find what's going on with bluetooth problem. It's very critical to be able to use this tablet with mouse and keyboard , especially bluetooth, as you can charge the tablet in the same time.
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manoscello said:
Someone has to find what's going on with bluetooth problem. It's very critical to be able to use this tablet with mouse and keyboard , especially bluetooth, as you can charge the tablet in the same time.
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I agree. It is stressing me out. I feel a little trapped because a good test would be to install cleanrom 1.1, which at least one person has said fixed bluetooth, but I can't do that without sacrificing my warranty.
I am not even sure whether I have a hardware problem or bluetooth is just a dubious technology.

PLEASE HELP ME *My "NEW" google pixel xl is supper slow on 2,4GHz*

Hello i recently got the pixel xl and it worked fine on 5 GHz wifi but when its connected to 2,4 GHz wifi its super slow and it shows connected, without internet or its supper slow I can not even play youtube video on 128p or surf the web...the best thing is there no service center in my country for Google devices and I don't have the receipt
I tried to factory reset it or flash android p but no luck either any way to fix it?
I know that 5ghz is faster but the problem is that most places doesn't offer 5 GHz wifi and i cannot do anything without mobile data
Couple of things, have you used a program like "wifi analyzer" (free in the play store) to see what kind of interference there may be with the 2.4 ghz signal? If too many networks are using the same channel it can cause problems. Are you close to the router or is there a wall or electrical panel between you and the router? Also, have you tried turning off Bluetooth? While not always a cause of interference it can be. One last thing, have you tried different 2.4 ghz networks?
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Yes, I tried to connect with different router even enabled hotspot on my laptop but nothing I turn of Bluetooth added it on airplane mode but nothing. I am gonna check the app you told me and I will edit this post thanks!
ahent said:
Couple of things, have you used a program like "wifi analyzer" (free in the play store) to see what kind of interference there may be with the 2.4 ghz signal? If too many networks are using the same channel it can cause problems. Are you close to the router or is there a wall or electrical panel between you and the router? Also, have you tried turning off Bluetooth? While not always a cause of interference it can be. One last thing, have you tried different 2.4 ghz networks?
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the signal cuts after moving about 20 or less meters in house even when i am less than 7 meters away the youtube takes for ever to load the videos or anything else that doesnt happen on any other phone i tried the s6 xiaomi redmi 5 plus and the ipad mini 4
dimitrispas22 said:
the signal cuts after moving about 20 or less meters in house even when i am less than 7 meters away the youtube takes for ever to load the videos or anything else that doesnt happen on any other phone i tried the s6 xiaomi redmi 5 plus and the ipad mini 4
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How many other devices are connected to your WiFi. I would unplug the modem and router, let it sit for a minute then reconnect the power.
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How many other devices are connected to your WiFi. I would unplug the modem and router, let it sit for a minute then reconnect the power.
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3 devices and my phone , as i said before the problem comes from my phone and I found a way to fix the connection problem -->press the screen and the body on the left little hard (go to ifixit and find where the wifi antenna is )and press little hard _the signal is much better now and i can get 18,7 Mbs down and 0.80 upload from 20Mbs down and .95 upload (my internet providers middle speed)
I contactacted google and i am waiting email if they can help me becasue in there is no official support in Cyprus
sorry for my bad English!
dimitrispas22 said:
Hello i recently got the pixel xl and it worked fine on 5 GHz wifi but when its connected to 2,4 GHz wifi its super slow and it shows connected, without internet or its supper slow I can not even play youtube video on 128p or surf the web...the best thing is there no service center in my country for Google devices and I don't have the receipt
I tried to factory reset it or flash android p but no luck either any way to fix it?
I know that 5ghz is faster but the problem is that most places doesn't offer 5 GHz wifi and i cannot do anything without mobile data
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There's no need for a service center with a Pixel device - you have a 24 hour chat and a phone call service included with the phone. Just go to Settings/Support & tips. I have used both chat and phone call support in the past, and they were great. People on the other side are actually very knowledgeable.
At the same time, this is one of buggiest phones I have used since the beginning of Android. Probably a phone with the most bugs, some completely deal breaking, like the Bluetooth bugs, that exists.
If you want top of the line speed and innovative software, go Pixel. If you want garbage hardware and tons of bugs, go Pixel.
I already contacted them via this way and I am waiting an email for what to do next!
hope they help me since I don't have the invoice and the box!
PS. For some unknown reason I called them on USA number and they said that because I am from Cyprus and google doesn't have a store or service here (the phone is bought from England) they can not help me that means my phone is for garbage ...... let's hope online chat will be more helpful!
And again sorry for my bad English!

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